Corporate Media Framing of Political Rhetoric: The Creation of a Moral Panic in the wake of September 11th 2001

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dc.contributor.authorMason, John Paulen
dc.contributor.committeechairHawdon, James E.en
dc.contributor.committeememberYuan, Anastasia Sue Vogten
dc.contributor.committeememberWimberley, Dale W.en
dc.contributor.departmentSociologyen
dc.date.accessioned2014-03-14T20:44:51Zen
dc.date.adate2009-10-12en
dc.date.available2014-03-14T20:44:51Zen
dc.date.issued2009-09-04en
dc.date.rdate2009-10-12en
dc.date.sdate2009-09-05en
dc.description.abstractThe purpose of this study is to examine the rhetoric and subsequent media framing of President George W. Bush during the years following the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, and how such frames have been able to generate and sustain a national moral panic. While a number of scholars have explored the effect of presidential rhetoric in generating panic (53; Cohen 1972; Goode and Ben-Yehuda 1994; Hawdon 2001; Kappeler and Kappeler 2004), none have evaluated the effect of media framing on such rhetoric. This study will use three major sources of data: (1) National Public Opinion Data from Gallup Poll, (2) daily USA Today news articles, and (3) rates of international terrorism from the U.S. State Department. Employing a content analysis of USA Today articles pertaining to terrorism, I will evaluate the relevant themes used by the corporate media to frame the Bush administration's rhetoric, and further analyze the relationship between such rhetoric and the collective conscience across the eight years of the Bush presidency, while controlling for rates of international terrorism.en
dc.description.degreeMaster of Scienceen
dc.identifier.otheretd-09052009-153040en
dc.identifier.sourceurlhttp://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-09052009-153040/en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/34937en
dc.publisherVirginia Techen
dc.relation.haspartMason_JP_T_2009.pdfen
dc.rightsIn Copyrighten
dc.rights.urihttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/en
dc.subjectterrorismen
dc.subjectsocial solidarityen
dc.subjectcorporate mediaen
dc.subject9/11en
dc.subjectmoral panic theoryen
dc.titleCorporate Media Framing of Political Rhetoric: The Creation of a Moral Panic in the wake of September 11th 2001en
dc.typeThesisen
thesis.degree.disciplineSociologyen
thesis.degree.grantorVirginia Polytechnic Institute and State Universityen
thesis.degree.levelmastersen
thesis.degree.nameMaster of Scienceen

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